What matters? Talking value in Australian culture

“When did the value of culture become solely a matter of the quantifiable benefits it provides, and the latter become subject to input-output analysis in what government budgets refer to as ‘the cultural function’?”. Moreover, the authors of this significant intervention in the field of cultural value ask, “Why did it happen, and why does it keep happening?” (Meyrick, Phiddian, & Barnett, 2018, p. vii).

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Cultural Trends

• Publication date

  2019-07-24

• Fields of study

  Sociology

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  DOI 10.1080/09548963.2019.1644799
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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